Round 2: Industry-researcher collaboration

The second round of the R&D Program promotes industry and research partnerships that seek to develop and commercialise renewable energy technologies, and to provide a broader range of energy options to reduce future energy costs.

Program priorities

Projects must develop industry-research partnerships with at least one eligible Australian research institution (research partner) and at least one industry partner and address one or more of the four key technology focus areas.

Key technology focus areas

Projects must address one or more of the following four key technology focus areas:

Balance of System (BoS) cost reduction (either on-grid or off-grid)

Integration and high penetration of renewables into networks (either on-grid, off-grid or mini-grids)

Funding

Up to $20 million was available in this second round. Grants are typically $500,000 – $5 million, with no individual grant to exceed $10 million.

Funding recipients were announced in April 2016. $17 million funding was awarded, leveraging substantial contributions from private and public sectors, with combined project values totalling more than $54 million.

The full list of project partners and complete profiles for each are available in the table below.